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This book is a wakeup call. It highlights relationships and staying in love as serious adventures for adults, not Disney rides for kids. Relationships make you stronger and more defined as a person or call out your weakest and least evolved parts. Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is hard. Do you wonder where love has gone? Has your relationship, even your fights, before predictable? Do you take one another for granted? Have career, children and family diluted the early excitement in one another’s presence? Or are you new to the love of your life and committed to growing in love? When you understand what makes people love, you learn the secret of a fulfilling life. Your relationship will transform, and you will be a model for children and other couples. Based on research in the neurosciences and years of experience working with thousands of couples and supervising family and couples’ therapists, I will share the Five Secrets of a Successful Relationship. The book will teach you what you never learned growing up or in romantic novels or films: how to be a LOVER. It will be your guide as you practice the Five Secrets to a Great Relationship: 1. Leave Space for Love 2. Operate Your Brains to Love 3. View Your Conditioning with Love 4. Emerge Free to Love 5. Route and Navigate in Stormy Seas

“I found the poems exquisitely phrased and very moving. If people who commit suicide only knew what pain they cause. Pat has a rare gift, and it was a privilege to read her poems.”

- Teruko Craig

Senior Lecturer Emerita, Tufts University

“This is a moving and beautiful collection of tributes, written with great honesty, self-awareness, and profound sadness, tempered after a while with triumph. While I don’t normally read poetry, I couldn’t put this down without finishing it, as it was so engaging and moving.”

- Daniel Sharp

Former CEO, Professor, Deputy Attorney-General, California

“A sensitive and personal memoir expressed in poetic cadences that ebb and flow with the author’s thoughts. The poet builds her life based on work and relationships, remembering but rising beyond early tragedy.”

- Joan Macy Kaskell

American Art Historian & Educator

The story of Ruth has been limited and constrained by biblical presentations and interpretations. For too many Christians, Ruth is only known for her "where you go I go" position and her capture of wealthy Boaz. She has been shaped by Christendom to be the epitome of purity that all females should emulate if they desire an honorable and wealthy man as Boaz. However, on closer examination, the steps of Ruth may not be suited for New Testament women. Was the purity of Ruth the key factor in her capture of Boaz? Or was it only a ploy by many in Christendom to ensure the purity of text. The Truth about Ruth fully examines each chapter and key verses to give needed insight lost to readers and hearers by the exclusion of critical contextual information. Eleven little-known or unexplored truths about Ruth are presented to ensure that the reader can factually determine whether Ruth's course of action is one that should be recommended for Christian females. Are the strategies used by Ruth to get her man suitable instruction to girl scouts, teens, and females in general? If not, why not? Is it possible that the ways of Ruth were simply the ways of women in general, with no connection to the attributes that promote purity and holiness? Could it be that the story of Ruth is more appropriate for instruction in how not to get a man rather than the prevailing opposite? Bringing no preconceived ideas to the text, readers will be able to release antiquated dating ideas and embrace the readily applicable truths about Ruth that are appropriate for Christian dating and release those that are antithetical to promoting meaningful relationships that are bound in Christian love and respect for each other.

Christopher Redding, a middle-aged businessman, experiences a psychic phenomenon that changes his life. He meets a young woman who triggers the event. In the course of events, he finds himself in the body of another man in Mexico during the Mexican War. He meets a woman he feels he's always known.

On his return to the present, he finds that the man whose body he entered had transmigrated to his own body and caused havoc with his life, including making love to his wife and attempting to seduce his stepdaughter.

With his life in chaos, Chris moves back and forth between eras, trying to choose between lives, loves, and problems that have become increasingly bizarre. He is hospitalized, jailed, wounded by Apaches, and chased by Mexican cavalry. He pursues his Spanish love but encounters difficulties he couldn't imagine.

Chris's modern life is in shambles, and he decides to give up his family in favor of the young woman he is now living with. But that is not the end of the story.

It's time for bed, but Casen, Keira, and Kesler won't sleep until they discover a great bedtime story. But what exactly makes a great story? Is it action? Is it adventure? Is it heroes and villains? Luckily, Uncle Adam knows the answer!

In this page-turning, choose-your-own-adventure book, children ages three to ten will use their imaginations to explore the key elements of really great stories. As they join in on the search for the perfect bedtime story, they'll answer interactive questions and visit favourite places like Grandma and Grandpa's, the beach, an ice-show, and even the moon! YOU Are a Great Story! empowers children to celebrate and create their own great stories each and every day!

Inspired by the boundless imaginations of my niece and nephews, Casen, Keira and Kesler, this book is dedicated to all those in the Entertainment Industry that were negatively affected, shaken up and displaced by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is our 'quarantine creation' and we hope it encourages everyone to stay creative, to stay positive and to remain the author of their own new adventures to come.

Soulsongs is a book of poems about the spiritual journey of the individual soul through the life of this world. It consists of 102 poems, ranging in style from short lyric poems to longer poems in free and semi-free verse, organized into 12 thematic sections representing the cycle of birth and death and ultimate liberation. Each poem stands on its own but is also thematically connected with the others in an organic whole. The book includes a 23 page introduction outlining the aesthetic principles underlying poetry, in particular its connection with music. Also available is a companion CD, Jericho Freeway, consisting of twelve original songs performed by the author on acoustic guitar and harmonica.

This is the story of a little girl lost in a very troubled world. Sent away by her mother, abandoned by a loveless father, and landing in a troubled marriage, RoseMarie MacNeil faced brutality and abuse. She tried so hard to make her world seem okay, always pretending things would get better, but growing up, they never did. Not until she made her own path to escape. While raising her four children, she strove fearlessly against the odds to become an independent young woman.

Women today need to be cautious. Never put yourself in a situation where you lose control of yourself and have to depend on any man or woman. The only person you can depend on is you! Take care of you first. RoseMarie's story shows that no one has to stay in a toxic marriage or relationship. There is always a way out. She hopes reading about her life experiences will help others realize they don't have to settle for whoever comes their way. Everyone deserves to be truly loved and treated with respect.

Daphne Dragonfly has a lively nature that is kind, caring, and sharing. Through alliteration and predictable phrases, the author creates a musical effect as Daphne engages in adventures with many friends at the pond. The colorful illustrations capture the setting of the summer pond where Daphne Dragonfly is a true friend to many.

Charles Darwin pointed out that the future evolution of mankind cannot happen through the continuation of the "survival of fittest" ideology. It lies in the courage to stand up like the first animal did and move in a vertical dimension, whereas developing kindness, compassion, and empathy are the hallmark of evolution and truly an inward revolution. This goal can be achieved by delving deeper into ourselves through the simple process of meditation and mindfulness. In this book you will learn the pathway to your inner vastness (i.e., Samadhi, Enlightenment or the "Mercury space") and gain answers to becoming "Souls From Mercury."

Through this memoir of her life, Mary Tolbert Coy relates her personal experiences and her reflections on humanity. She hereby explores those life experiences which can affect people regardless of race or status. Through the lessons and tools provided in this book, Coy hopes readers will more readily open their minds and see life from more than just their perspective.

Making a powerful case for hope, Coy proves even tragic experiences can produce positive results. Remember, as long as there is life, there is still a chance to grow and create positive change.